Perhaps the 'mail' command might be useful to you - it is the original,
TTY-based unix mailer. It can even be used to read mail from a local
mailbox, albeit in a rather awkward manner. 'man mail' will of course
provide further information..
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, davidturetsky wrote:
> Yes, all quite right. I use elm and pine and vi and emacs but find it very
> convenient to just send quick notes from the command line at times directly
> via exim, particularly when I am dealing with diagnostic issues and if
> possible it would be nice to honor etiquette without otherwise chopping up
> my transmission
>
> I appreciate exim's black magic. It is quite impressive!
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave C." <djc@???>
> To: "Nigel Metheringham" <Nigel.Metheringham@???>
> Cc: "davidturetsky" <davidturetsky@???>; <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 10:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Wrap text
>
>
> >
> > A bit of pointing in the proper direction - you should really take a
> > look at various unix MUA's (pine is my favorite. elm is a bit older but
> > also text-based like pine. Some X11 based ones include Mutt and
> > Netscape Communicator)
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > davidturetsky@??? said:
> > > > I'm glad you raise this point. When I use vi/vim to compose a file for
> > > > delivery via exim, I set the linelength to 70/72 and the delivered
> > > > mail reads well and satisfies esthetic/politeness requirements.
> > > > However when I use exim directly and explicitly use the 'enter' key .
> . .
> > > Exim is an MTA. Its job is to get mail from one place to another
> > > without changing the content.
> > >
>
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